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How to disable menu popping up when I press ALT key

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Pavel
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I have disabled Menu bar but when I press Alt key accidentally I see Menu bar again.

Is there a way to disable popping-up Menu bar by pressing Alt key?

BTW this one https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1084123 is not the answer.

I have disabled Menu bar but when I press Alt key accidentally I see Menu bar again. Is there a way to disable popping-up Menu bar by pressing Alt key? BTW this one https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1084123 is not the answer.

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You can set the ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses pref to false on the about:config page to prevent opening the menu when holding down the Alt key. This may require to close and restart Firefox.

  • ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

Note that the pref is automatically set when toggling between the autohide and permanently-shown state.

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Akash
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As far as I know pressing ALT key is the option to reveal menu in the product.

It will act the same till it is removed. There is not much to do.

cor-el
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Vahaolana Nofidina

You can set the ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses pref to false on the about:config page to prevent opening the menu when holding down the Alt key. This may require to close and restart Firefox.

  • ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

Note that the pref is automatically set when toggling between the autohide and permanently-shown state.

Novain'i cor-el t@

cor-el
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Note that the pref is automatically set when toggling between the autohide and permanently-shown state.

McCoy
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Pavel said

Is there a way to disable popping-up Menu bar by pressing Alt key?

Hello Pavel,

Would you do this please :

Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (ignore the warning)

Type in the search bar and look for the preference :

ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses

and set its value to false

That should do the trick.

Oops, looks like cor-el posted this solution while I was typing my post.

Novain'i McCoy t@